Friday, December 30, 2022
Google's Waze app adds new feature that warns about dangerous roads
Google Nearby Share gets Material You redesign on Android
Tim Wu, who helped shape Biden's antitrust agenda, will leave his role as an adviser on January 4 to return to teaching antitrust law at Columbia Law School (Emily Birnbaum/Bloomberg)
Tim Wu, who helped shape Biden's antitrust agenda, will leave his role as an adviser on January 4 to return to teaching antitrust law at Columbia Law School — Adviser Tim Wu, who helped to shape President Joe Biden's antitrust agenda, will leave his position Jan. 4, the White House said Friday.
FTX Japan says it is developing a system to resume withdrawals through the website of Liquid Japan, a crypto exchange it acquired in 2022, by mid-February (Ryan Browne/CNBC)
FTX Japan says it is developing a system to resume withdrawals through the website of Liquid Japan, a crypto exchange it acquired in 2022, by mid-February — - FTX Japan says it is developing a system to resume withdrawals through the website of Liquid Japan, a crypto exchange it acquired earlier this year.
China-based Freetech Intelligent Systems, which creates software and hardware for autonomous vehicles, raised a ~$100M Series B led by Chaos Investment (Shadine Taufik/Tech in Asia)
China-based Freetech Intelligent Systems, which creates software and hardware for autonomous vehicles, raised a ~$100M Series B led by Chaos Investment — Freetech Intelligent Systems, a China-based autonomous driving firm, has raised nearly US$100 million in its series B round, Nikkei Asia reported.
Huawei has exited "crisis mode" following US restrictions and expects ~$91.5B in 2022 revenue, unchanged from 2021, due to growing telco infrastructure sales (Dan Strumpf/Wall Street Journal)
Huawei has exited “crisis mode” following US restrictions and expects ~$91.5B in 2022 revenue, unchanged from 2021, due to growing telco infrastructure sales — Chairman says U.S. restrictions are ‘new normal’ and company is ‘back to business as usual’ as telecom business sees growth
Bahamas' Securities Commission says it is holding FTX assets worth $3.5B on a temporary basis and plans to deliver them to customers and creditors who own them (Reuters)
Bahamas' Securities Commission says it is holding FTX assets worth $3.5B on a temporary basis and plans to deliver them to customers and creditors who own them — The Securities Commission of the Bahamas said on Thursday that it is holding FTX assets worth $3.5 billion based on market pricing …
Thursday, December 29, 2022
Apple is doubly vulnerable to Chinese escalation against Taiwan, which could impact the iPhone's complex components and assembly, driving production near zero (Chris Miller/The Atlantic)
Apple is doubly vulnerable to Chinese escalation against Taiwan, which could impact the iPhone's complex components and assembly, driving production near zero — Long before it reached your home, even before its tiny components were pieced together in an assembly plant …
Server maker Supermicro's shares have soared 76%+ YTD, taking its market cap from $2.4B to $4.4B, outperforming all US tech companies valued at $1B or more (Kif Leswing/CNBC)
Server maker Supermicro's shares have soared 76%+ YTD, taking its market cap from $2.4B to $4.4B, outperforming all US tech companies valued at $1B or more — - Supermicro shares have gained 89% this year, outperforming all U.S. tech companies worth at least $1 billion.
CryptoSlam: NFT trading volume fell from $24M+ on December 20 to $12.9M on December 25, down for a second consecutive year; Yuga's BAYC rallied before Christmas (MK Manoylov/The Block)
CryptoSlam: NFT trading volume fell from $24M+ on December 20 to $12.9M on December 25, down for a second consecutive year; Yuga's BAYC rallied before Christmas — - NFT sales volumes fell in the lead up to Christmas in both 2021 and 2022. — However, Yuga Labs's Bored Ape Yacht Club's …
2022 saw the re-emergence of hacktivism on a large scale, with some new tactics and approaches blurring the lines between hacktivism and state-sponsored attacks (Matt Burgess/Wired)
2022 saw the re-emergence of hacktivism on a large scale, with some new tactics and approaches blurring the lines between hacktivism and state-sponsored attacks — Throughout 2022, geopolitics has given rise to a new wave of politically motivated attacks with an undercurrent of state-sponsored meddling.
After a 24+ hour Alibaba Cloud outage on December 18, Alibaba names Wu Zeming as CTO and says CEO Daniel Zhang Yong will oversee Cloud, effective immediately (Tracy Qu/South China Morning Post)
After a 24+ hour Alibaba Cloud outage on December 18, Alibaba names Wu Zeming as CTO and says CEO Daniel Zhang Yong will oversee Cloud, effective immediately — Alibaba Group Holding has named a new chief technology officer (CTO) and removed the president of its cloud computing services unit …
Solana cofounders Anatoly Yakovenko and Raj Gokal scramble to move past FTX's stain on their token, down 96% from November 2021; FTX and Alameda bought 58M+ SOL (Hannah Miller/Bloomberg)
Solana cofounders Anatoly Yakovenko and Raj Gokal scramble to move past FTX's stain on their token, down 96% from November 2021; FTX and Alameda bought 58M+ SOL — Solana, the blockchain network once championed by Sam Bankman-Fried, is drawing immense scrutiny as industry watchers wonder whether …
Wednesday, December 28, 2022
How to disable all alerts/notifications on WhatsApp without deleting the app
After China lifted its COVID-19 rules, leading to surging cases, social media censors relax some rules, allowing criticism of protestors but not the government (Austin Ramzy/Wall Street Journal)
After China lifted its COVID-19 rules, leading to surging cases, social media censors relax some rules, allowing criticism of protestors but not the government — Protesters, public-health experts targeted for country's sudden about-face as infections explode, but leader Xi Jinping remains unscathed
Sources: the US State Department ordered embassies to push back against foreign influence campaigns, as officials worry anti-US views are taking root worldwide (New York Times)
New York Times : Sources: the US State Department ordered embassies to push back against foreign influence campaigns, as officials worry ...
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The first project we remember working on together was drawing scenes from the picture books that our mom brought with her when she immigrate...
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Sohee Kim / Bloomberg : South Korean authorities are investigating a data leak at e-commerce giant Coupang that exposed ~33.7M accounts; ...
